fkie_cve-2021-28710
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2021-11-21 15:15
Modified
2024-11-21 06:00
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
certain VT-d IOMMUs may not work in shared page table mode For efficiency reasons, address translation control structures (page tables) may (and, on suitable hardware, by default will) be shared between CPUs, for second-level translation (EPT), and IOMMUs. These page tables are presently set up to always be 4 levels deep. However, an IOMMU may require the use of just 3 page table levels. In such a configuration the lop level table needs to be stripped before inserting the root table's address into the hardware pagetable base register. When sharing page tables, Xen erroneously skipped this stripping. Consequently, the guest is able to write to leaf page table entries.
References
security@xen.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7ZGWVVRI4XY2XSTBI3XEMWBXPDVX6OT/
security@xen.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23Third Party Advisory
security@xen.orghttps://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-390.txtVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7ZGWVVRI4XY2XSTBI3XEMWBXPDVX6OT/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-23Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-390.txtVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
xen xen 4.15.0
fedoraproject fedora 35


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